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• Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their values and their significance within the whole of life, of society, of spirituality, of history, of nature. In all merely partial or fragmentary perspectives, there necessarily remain undigested irrational factors, surds that one is merely tolerating and not truly respecting as essential and integral to the whole of what we are.

  Kenny Smith

  Love, Philosophy, Perspective

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• Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Logic, Ridicule

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• When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time relax and be still. Then for the first time our consciousness can become whole and unfragmented. Then total attention can be given to all of our thoughts and feelings. And then there will be found a gentleness and a goodness in us that can embrace all that is been given in the world. Then a deep love for everything will be the result of this deep attention. For this total attention, this soft and pure consciousness that we are, is nothing but Love itself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Fighting, Creating

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• If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Growing Up

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love. Dear girl, this: that we loved, inside us, not One who would someday appear, but seething multitudes; not just a single child, but also the fathers lying in our depths like fallen mountains; also the dried-up riverbeds of ancient mothers-;also the whole soundless landscape under the clouded or clear sky of its destiny -; all this, my dear, preceded you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Girl, Mother

  1923 Duinieser Elegien, no.3 (translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke,1989).

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• You naturally love those who are dear to you, and you must learn to give that kind of love to the whole world.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Love, Giving, World

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• To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Ice, Sky

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.272, Applewood Books

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• There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the concrete lineaments of how we happen exist in this time and place. We are participants in a dynamic system and we know its profile only by its action in organizing how we interact together and how we see our own selves. "The truth is the whole," and the whole is a system of living energy: our life as human and historical spirits.

  Kenny Smith

  Truth, Self, Historical

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• The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful, it suddenly transforms the whole world. The whole world becomes beautiful because the world reflects you, it is a mirror.

  Rajneesh

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mirrors

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• The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Beauty, Ivy, Would Be

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.39

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• If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.

  Frederick Law Olmsted

  Beauty, Exercise, Giving

  Frederick Law Olmsted (1993). “Yosemite and the Mariposa grove: a preliminary report, 1865”, Yosemite Assn

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• He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.

  Arthur Symons

  Beauty, Perfect, Style

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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• While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a mistaken sense of altruism and human compassion it cannot be denied that such a culture of death, taken as a whole, betrays a completely individualistic concept of freedom, which ends up by becoming the freedom of "the strong" against the weak who have no choice but to submit.

  Pope John Paul II

  Strong, Taken, Compassion

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• Now you know well that the most deadly foes of the Catholic religion have always waged a fierce war, but without success, against this Chair [of St. Peter]; they are by no means ignorant of the fact that religion itself can never totter and fall while this Chair remains intact, the Chair which rests on the rock which the proud gates of hell cannot overthrow and in which there is the whole and perfect solidity of the Christian religion.

  Pope Pius IX

  Christian, Powerful, War

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• Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

  Alexandra Kollontai

  Fate, Essence, Third Person

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• It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Lying, Mean

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• ...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Marine, America, World

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• The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Men

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.777, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

  Robert Frost

  Country, Business, Ocean

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• Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Work, Dirty, Manners

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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• When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Breathing, Inner Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.440, Parallax Press

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  We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

  Maria Montessori

  Generosity, Unity, Together

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.

  Byron Nelson

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance, and in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet.

  Heinrich Heine

  Nature, Flower, Mean

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.169

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• The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still probably moving in that train. For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should evanish by piece-meal; a conclusion not warranted by the local disappearance of one or two species of animals, and opposed by the thousands and thousands of instances of the renovating power constantly exercised by nature for the reproduction of all her subjects, animal, vegetable, and mineral.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Moving, Animal

  "Revenge of the Meat-Eating Megatherium" by Brian Switek, www.wired.com. June 9, 2011.

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